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About Gunnar Rundgren

Gunnar Rundgren is
a critical thinker with experiences from more than 100 countries in the world.

He has worked with most parts of the
organic agriculture sector — from farming to policy — since 1977, starting on
the pioneer organic farm, Torfolk. He is the founder and a senior consultant of
Grolink AB
(www.grolink.se), a consultancy company engaged in certification development,
policy development, project development, marketing strategies and international
training programmes — mainly targeting developing countries.

He has been engaged
as a consultant by NGOs, the government, private companies and
intergovernmental organisations such as OECD, UNEP, UNCTAD, the World Bank and the
FAO.

Rundgren is the initiator of several
organisations for organic agriculture in Sweden, including its main
eco-label KRAV (www.krav.se) where he was the director for the first eight
years. He served as the first President of the Accreditation Programme Board of
the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) 1992-1997.
He was an IFOAM World Board member in 1998 and the IFOAM President during the
period 2000-2005. In 2002 he was a founding board member of the ISEAL Alliance.

He has published several books related to
organic farming. In 2010, he published a book about the major social and
environmental challenges of our world, Trädgården
Jorden, which was translated into Japanese in 2012 and is now published in
English - Garden Earth. He also co-authored the book Jorden
vi Äter, published in 2012, about the challenge of feeding the world’s
population in a sustainable way.

Rundgren was awarded an honorary doctorate
in Science at the Uganda Martyrs University 2009. The same year, he was
appointed a Member of the Royal
Swedish Academy
of Agriculture and Forestry.